About The National Art Gallery, Singapore
The National Art Gallery, Singapore is a new institution for visual arts. It manages the world's largest public collection of modern Southeast Asian and Singapore art. The Gallery focuses on displaying, promoting and researching these artworks, relating them to the wider Asian and international contexts, and hosting international art exhibitions.
Situated in the heart of the Civic District, the City Hall and adjacent former Supreme Court building — two important heritage buildings symbolic of Singapore's nationhood - will be converted to house this new visual arts venue, and is anticipated to be completed by 2015. The National Art Gallery will be a civic and creative space.
The Gallery will also be an integrated development that could include food and beverage and retail components within Singapore's Civic District, which overlooks the Padang. The government targets to attract one million visitors a year to the Gallery. The combined floor area of 60,000 square metres at the Old Supreme Court Building and City Hall will be developed at a total cost of S$532 million.
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